When I Die You Can Do What You Want + Before the Fall There Was No Fall, Episode 2: Surfaces + Great Expectations

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When I Die You Can Do What You Want
Adela Jušić, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2011, 19 Min. OV with english subtitles

Originally conceived as a video installation for a gallery space, this powerful work from Adela Jušić unleashes its full artistic potential in the darkness of the cinema on the big screen: a full frontal view of the wrinkled, pained face of her grandmother as the artist colors her hair. The soundtrack features Jušić whispering the memories of her now deceased grandmother in an unbroken stream; a woman who, at the end of her life, appeared to draw a kind of conclusion through a comparison of the two wars she survived.

Before the Fall There Was No Fall, Episode 2: Surfaces 
Anna Dasović, Netherlands/Austria 2020, 20 Min. OV with english subtitles

Anna Dasović examines a series of wall drawings by Dutch soldiers in a UN camp in the immediate vicinity of Srebrenica that were never intended for the public. Before the Fall There Was No Fall, Episode 2: Surfaces revolves around rhetorical structures, not only those that make violence visible but those which conceal the politically undesirable. Focus is placed on the figure of the "bystander" and the ways in which the "unimaginable" and the "unrepresentable" are evoked in order to deflect responsibility thereby allowing violence to occur.

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Great Expectations
Renata Poljak, France/Croatia 2005, 17 Min. OV with english subtitles

Drawing on her own family history, Renata Poljak tells of the postwar architecture on the Croatian coast and how it represents a new and violent value system in which capitalism, ruthlessness, and nationalism thrive.

Gaby Babić, born in 1976 in Frankfurt am Main, is a cultural worker and program curator. She directs the Kinothek Asta Nielsen and Remake: Frankfurter Frauen Film Tage (Frankfurter Women’s Film Days). Her work focusses on film and history, critical theory, migration, Eastern European cinema, feminist film work, anti-racism and anti-fascism.